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There are no avia piston engines left above 500-600HP today, and 1000+hp are completely unheard off.

This is why a lot of radial engine powered planes that are many decades old have no options for new engines if there are no turbine conversion available.
We had to give up our privacy to create a highly sophisticated technology that doesn't even work half of the time. I love the future, it was totally worth it.
A long time ago, I saw a guy unable to post on a corporate blog of his own team. Turned out that his name was flagged by a filter.

What made this particularly egregious is that the name in question: "Hui" - wasn't even a swear word in either his own native language - Chinese - nor in English. But it closely resembles a Russian profanity. Turned out that the filter was "multilingual", and applied rules for all languages to all posts...
They embed their ads on news sites, style them to look like legitimate articles, and prey on the vulnerable. Same methodology as the "your Social Security number has been suspended" scam calls.
It's probably a good idea to point out that the evidence for Polynesian/S. American contact is extremely scant and mostly conjectural. This is a very controversial topic among archeologists and historians and there are biased interpretations on both sides.
Report it to the FBI so the developers of the app get sent to prison, where they belong.

Are you in the habit of reporting serious crimes to the nearest advertising agency?
I think once the tech is mature you will be working on VR/AR monitors anyway. I have the Quest 2 and that is already quite useful for web browsing and movie watching.
I'll pay Mozilla and based on prior discussion on HN, I'm sure a lot of people will pay Mozilla for a paid email service just because of their reputation.
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I have been rowing since beginning of Covid and I think it is a great exercise for a software developer.
It seems this is the natural endgame, every refrigerator will come with an LCD screen on the front that advertises at you.

Child's crayon drawing + magnet = problem solved.
I once had a bug that I traced back to a rule (can’t remember in which part of the stack - though I think it was client controlled IIS) that was striping the “select” from the word “selected” in query string params in an attempt to thwart sql injection. From memory it was naive enough that “sselectelect” was converted nicely in the process.
It's weird. You're right, but those are still seen as "meritocratic", and one could argue were meritocratic historically, at least in some degree, because in theory you get into the right school by scholastic merit, you get into the right industry by merit of your learned and demonstrated skillset and willingness to work in that industry, and you have money by merit of having created value from your hard work in industry.

In practice you get into the right schools because you belong to the right social circles, you get into the right industry because you come from the right schools, or are in the right social circles, and you make enough money because you got into the right schools and industry or inherited by virtue of being born into the right social circles...
Anything that takes traffic away from Google is a good thing.

Bring back the old school internet, forums, curated lists, niche communities, irc !
It's a defeatist attitude. Experiments have to start somewhere, right? People wrote the same kinds of comments about digital cameras. Fifteen years later it is difficult to buy anything else. So, let the engineers work on the problems.
The self driving computer was discussed in some detail at their 2019 Autonomy Day event.

https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE?t=4244
I've purchased whatever Jason calls the big bundle from ML Mastery and the books are pretty much the same. I get the impression the primary goal was "produce a lot of pages," while "impart information" was secondary.

That being said, it looks like points are awarded two ways:

* Counts the least: Retweets and likes of a tweet containing a link to an article on the blog

* Counts the most: Replies and mentions of an article on the blog by other people

So I'm sure it's possible to game this, and it seems to bias toward incumbents (but what doesn't), but at least it's trying to be a little better than "here's a list of blogs I like."
Investigate the people that created or are the primary distributors of the childporn because they are trackable on clearnet, and let everyone else make their own choice of not installing or stop being able to access when the servers disappear?

Can you explain why thats not the first thing that came to mind? Why are our realities so different?
Let's put it straight: majority of people don't give a damn on privacy. There should be a global pro-privacy campaign run by all of us to convince as many people as we can to respect their privacy!
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> The second reason I wrote this piece is that I think operant conditioning provides a partial explanation for the apparent paradox where many people believe that most software works pretty well most of the time, while others believe that software is basically crap. People in the latter camp, I believe, are somehow able to resist or discard their conditioning in order to use software in a more unbiased way. Or maybe they’re just slow learners. Either way, those people would make amazing members of a software testing team.

I think this is one of the big differences between junior and senior software developers. You can see juniors get very frustrated with bugs because the code they delivered was 'working'. Seniors realize that software only works within well defined parameters - and it's only a matter of time before you find another parameter that you did not define well enough beforehand.

I also think there's a hierarchy of software implementations:

Working As Expected (by the user)

Working As Designed (by the designer/lead)

Working As Intended (by the programmer)

Working As Implemented (by the programmer)

[this is somewhat tongue in cheek]
My experience with email in general has been so exhausting. This year I finally set up a new email address at a custom domain (with * catchall), but what I've found is that I'm afraid to give it to anyone. Right now I'm using it to communicate with like 3 people and it feels so nice.

I may use the * in the future for custom emails for groups of concerns (jobs@domain or applications@domain, hn@domain, banking@domain), but I'm worried it will just add to the heaping mental overhead I already experience when working with email (what was my address I use for this again...?, etc). I can't help the feeling that it's just a matter of time before it starts to look like my original email account where even unsubscribing from things seems like a labor of Sisyphus, but this time with the added noise of it going to an email naming system I've lost control of.
Speaking from experience, just because you work for a company doesn't mean you can use all of their products (or that you'll even get favorable pricing on them).
FWIW, general profanity detection is a highly nontrivial problem. It’s true that such subword profanity filters aren’t that great, but slightly more sophisticated ones (eg whole word matching or n-grams) tend to have relatively good precision. You could train a fancy neural network, but the overall return on precision and recall tends to be not that great (compared to the exponential change in speed and cost). The problem almost always crops up in out-of-distribution sentences (such as “bone” at a paleontology conference).
They are selling a commodity.

When you are in a commodities market only price matters.

The article also mentions a series of issues with traditionally taxi.

> Furthermore there are some taxis who will cut costs by not providing a good service. This may be by promising to arrive at a certain time but then regularly turning up late. Sometimes late enough for you to miss your flight or your train at the station. They may arrive looking scruffy, unshaven or badly dressed. They may take you on a longer route than you expected and hike the fares up that way.

All these were pretty much fixed by Uber. At a lower price than legacy taxi operators.
At the risk of your site's reputation, of course.
I'm not sure what exactly is "enterprise" about having an IVR with 3 options and "bring your own number".

RingCentral wants ~15K a year for this service, and they think "video" is a worthwhile value add (whoever their customer segment is, it's certainly not me).

I can obtain the feature set I desire with a 1 week investment into setting up Asterisk on AWS, and running costs of $100/mo, plus a ton of headaches. It seems to me like there is room for a more reasonably priced vendor to exist in the market. I would happily pay, say, $300-500/mo for the convenience of a SaaS solution, but ~20K/yr is what I pay for things that actually serve a meaningful purpose for the business.
It seems like every social media platform / message board had high levels of trust initially, when the user base was smallish and naive. Maybe it's because they all grew on the backs of teenagers/college kids who are more trusting, or it's just the early days of the platform are more exciting and that seems to naturally build trust among users.
You just described the world of Max Headroom, where TVs were everywhere, and having an off switch would get you prison time.
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No, "meritocracy" was brought into the common lexicon in the 1960s, specifically as an alternative to existing forms of social structure. A system where it did not matter which school you went to, in particular.

I do not read the GP as being satirical in their use, although the use of quotes makes it somewhat unclear.
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Interesting take. You realize that suburban living is subsidized by urban living[1]? The suburbs don't generate enough economic activity to be self-sustaining.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/4/16/when-apartment...
Reminds me of the old HP Jornada 680 I had. I really wanted it to be able to do rudimentary support when I was on the go, but ultimately went back to a laptop because it was just too tedious without a real keyboard. Perhaps, though, things have changed enough that these tiny devices are more practical now.

They looked like this: https://preview.redd.it/nnf9bvpmgpk51.jpg?width=640&crop=sma...
You said "they are desperate to find something".

They said they "found" something. I see similarities.
> mollifying groups pressuring the harbor authorities to reduce allowed # of flights.

I doubt they’ll be any happier if the flights were “green”, but they may have shot themselves in the foot if pollution was their core complaint.

But I’ve seen how these things go. Toronto Island airport wanted to expand to operate turbojets. Somehow complaints about noise helped kill the project, even though turboprops are basically turbojets with a wharbling propellor.

The noise studies showed that the loudest things were loud cars and motorcycles at the waterfront...
This could be more easily done by simply signing up for gmail with an address that doesn't contain your name.
My CoD group of friends still occasionally calls the assault rifle "analsault". Stupid, huh? Not as stupid as an earlier version of CoD (Black Ops 1, IIRC) that wouldn't let you name a load out "assault $WHATEVER", 'cuz you know, "ass". But "anal" is so much better so that was allowed.

They fixed it in later versions, but I still have a "penetration" class because I'm immature that way.
A lot of gas stations have started doing this, as well. Ads while you pump gas.
Those massive problems are significantly less massive than they were then.
I'm sympathetic, but it also reads a lot like FUD.
I don't see any problem with people being rich. The state has extreme resources compared to all rich people combined, and it doesn't use it - that's wrong. People making money from their enormous risk and ingenuity is a positive phenomenon, and is completely orthogonal to poor people being left alone by the state.
> GPD has a lot of really good products now.

GPD's keyboards are notoriously bad so far for their handhelds. The Pyra's keyboard is small but has been crafted to be quite usable for thumb typing. (Even the Pandora was quite OK in that regard).
Of course Google does not think its customers are sheep. Google thinks its users are sheep. Chrome users are not the customers.
Sorry dang. I'll give this one a chance.
I do wonder what the justification for banning apps that "contain or promote sexually explicit content or profanity, including pornography".
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This kind of thing is exactly what anti-trust laws are for.
Per transistor maybe, but the leakage goes down less than the amount of transistors you can pack per area, so in effect, per die/chip your leakage increases. Heat as well, but it’s the other side of the same coin.
So, everyone needs to go back and watch the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series. In that world, pretty much everyone has a few enhancements, visual and audio overlay options are pretty much universal. Having your equipment hacked is a super rare, state-actor-level event. But, the story is focused on people who deal with events of that magnitude, so it happens all the time in the plotline.
It isn't just retail investors. Rational buyers (including institutions and algorithms) would purchase this stock if they believe there are people they can unload it onto at a higher price. Now think about the second order consequences of that — the buying frenzy will continue until the bubble bursts.
Would they prefer it enough to opt into that tracking and targeting?

If users had to go to a setting to turn on targeted ads, what percentage of them do you think would do it? I suspect it would be pretty low. I wonder if most people would even notice that the setting had been turned off?

We use the opt out model all the time to justify why users don't actually care about tracking -- we say that they'd opt out if they did care. But I feel like we all mostly know that an opt in system would also not see much use (that's the reason why ad networks are so opposed to them), and I don't know why we don't consider that to be evidence that consumers probably don't value targeted ads very much at all.
no such thing as long or too long
>This makes a lot of sense for telco since it would drastically lower the cost of their deployment and the maintenance of the 5G network.

Actually no.
Integrated solutions are cheaper to make at scale (for how much it's sold it's a different question)
Also integration of multiple vendors into one working solutions has additional costs both for deployment and maintenance/support later (instead of 1 piece of equipment you have 5 boxes with 5 vendors pointing fingers at each other when something fails). Also more points of failure
Imagine using a public urinal and you can watch an LCD screen while taking care of business.

This exists. I've seen it in Las Vegas. There's also a video screen on the faucet, and in the mirror for when you wash your hands.

Filling up your car with gas? Fill your mind with ads while you do it!

I've also seen this. Also in Las Vegas. I remember that Cheddar provided the content.
1. DoH is a user configurable setting, it cannot be dictated by ad vendors or websites.

2. DoH fails back to standard DNS.

3. DoH is hard to filter, just like other TLS encrypted traffic.

4. DoH is a user FRIENDLY technology meant to increase user privacy and reduce DNS hijacking.

5. Don't like it? Turn it off. Only you have that power to enable or disable it.
> Note that I did not say it was not being addressed

That's exactly what you said:

> and is still an issue we globally need to address.

When you say something "needs to be addressed" it means to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem. Your initial statement inferred nothing was being done and attention needed to be given to the problem.

If you actually meant what you wrote in your response, then why not just say that? As opposed to inferring that nothing is being done?
http://smashthestack.org/wargames.html

> The Smash the Stack Wargaming Network hosts several Wargames. A Wargame in our context can be described as an ethical hacking environment that supports the simulation of real world software vulnerability theories or concepts and allows for the legal execution of exploitation techniques. Software can be an Operating System, network protocol, or any userland application.
The hope is pod hosts would compete, some could be free and mine your data for ads etc, others could pay and focus on privacy. If that doesn’t work you host your own pod server, as long as it has an address that can be reached by the web that’s all that’s needed.
Thanks for the feedback, that's actually a great idea and something I think we would consider implementing in a future release.
Approved since it doesn't have a naughty word in it. /s
Agreed. This is what bothers me about the modern push for non-governmental censorship. Eventually the pendulum will swing the other way and it's the very left who champion conservative deplatforming, who will end up feeling the sting on this one.

It's silly how so many people don't understand that if you create a framework for censorship of certain ideas, it will always eventually be used for censorship of other ideas outside of the intended target.
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Taboola, Outbrain, et al are the bottom of the barrel as it relates to the space of monetized and amplified content recommendations.

Literal clickbait designed to pray on the poorly informed.

From an advertising perspective, their targeting "AI" is nonsense.

The fact that they are cashing out isn't upsetting. The fact that countless, I would assume tens of millions of users, have been duped to click on this drudge is most disheartening.
I dont bother being secretive about SSN, its security theatre. The person in earshot has a lower likelihood of bothering with it when every service provider that also has it will get mass hacked and are the primary targets.

I use a separate TIN or EIN (Tax/Employer Identification Number) where I can. All my businesses have one, even a sole proprietorship that exists purely in your head can obtain one, and this can go on many forms.
That's not much of a point. I can already talk to those people. Why do I need a bad solution to a problem I don't have?
It is infuriating that Google's default action for these automated takedowns is to remove the app and ask the developer to upload a new build with a new package name, which means not keeping any of the existing users.

It's happened to two of my clients in the past 6 months based on small infractions in the app metadata, but no issue with the app itself.

In both cases the app was taken down with no advance notice, and eventually reinstated after an appeal and several very stressful days of waiting.

Apple seems to be very selective during the approval process, and is often inconsistent so a minor update can get rejected for something that was approved many times before. I guess different people review and interpret the rules differently so maybe this is unavoidable.

Google (from what I can tell) seems to take a very different approach and relies much more on automated enforcement. The process is on average much lower friction for the developer, but getting previously approved app listings removed at any time without warning is not a good experience.

Edit: I forgot to mention that you can't actually edit the metadata while the app is suspended and re-submit it for review. The only two choices are to appeal and edit the description after the app is reinstated, or create a completely new app listing.
pjs is for filtering and transformation like awk/sed/grep, but it supports many different text-based formats and its programs are written in plain JavaScript.

Here's an example that converts a file to uppercase:

cat file.txt | pjs '_.toUpperCase()'

It can also scrape websites using CSS selectors:

curl https://aduros.com | pjs --html 'h1,h2' '_.text'

And JSON using jq filters:

cat database.json | pjs --json '.users[]' '_.age >= 21'

Lots more examples on the README/man page. It's still quite new and may have bugs, if you find one let me know!
You can set up a GitHub Action that performs an action on any push to master/main (or any branch). You can also only perform the action when specific files are changed: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax.... This shouldn't require admin access, assuming admins allow you to use GitHub Actions.

I generally don't bother looking at master/main for code changes unless there's something I'm looking for specifically. I set up CODEOWNERS so that teams get notified when their files are changed in PRs - this is how I get notified of potential changes to files that I care about.
I've not only considered it, I actively do it on a regular basis. My point was not to suggest argument mapping is useless, it was only to observe that it's never caught on as a social way to resolve political disputes, and to offer a possible reason.
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Interesting you point that out, because I also used to feel that way. But as I started typing more notes, I realised that just the act of typing out my thoughts and putting them into prose goes a long way to understanding something [0].

Nowadays, if I don't understand something, I head to the keyboard and start explaing it in text and it pretty much always works. I rarely revisit notes, mostly to link them together and very seldomly to revise them. If I have the time to organize the notes, that's great, if not, that's fine too.

I don't know know if this will work for you though. Learning is highly personal and imo just trying to find new ways to learn things can help a lot too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_effect
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> Won’t baseless accusations of no voter fraud undermine the confidence even more?

> After all, is there any evidence for voter fraud in Russia?

The accusations of there being no voter fraud in the 2020 US election fraud aren't baseless: all the verification checks have passed, and for that to happen and fraud to have occurred would require a conspiracy of unbelievable scale and secrecy. Also, the claims that there is fraud are not just baseless, they're incoherent.

While Russia may make baseless claims their elections are fair, there's more than enough evidence to disbelieve them (like how they disqualify and murder their political opponents).
> Blatantly illegal business practices and general sociopathy of the former,

Trust, morality and legality are not the same thing. Sure, Uber was operating illegally in many places, but millions of people used these illegal services and saw nothing wrong with it. They didn’t see using an unlicensed cab company as anything bad.

Just because something is illegal doesn’t make it morally wrong, or socially destructive. There have been plenty of cases where it’s the laws that are morally wrong and socially destructive. If you want to argue that Uber destroyed trust, you can’t simply say it broke the law and call it a day, you need also to argue that the law they broke was good and desirable.

So, what was the evil and socially destructive thing that Uber actually did?
> like we have never ever in history managed

Smallpox would like a word.

Polio, too, for the most part.
That used to be the business model of Adacore and the GNAT compiler.

Their compiler was technically GPL, but they sold it for thousands of dollars to businesses, with the implied threat that they would let the phone ring for a while when a customer who distributed the sources had a problem.

Since their customers are using it for safety- and mission-critical software, noone would ever dare to cross them.